Improvement in tents



A. S. BURT.

Tent.

Patented Nov. 1878-.

6. %LML/% v Wkf UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW SHERIDAN BURT, OF OMAHA, nnRRAsKA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,005, dated November19, 1878; application filed January 12, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW S. BURT, UnitedStates Army, of Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska,have invented a new and Improved Shelter-Tent; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, formin g part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tent whenpitched Fig. 2, an inside view of the ridge-tastening when spread outand before being tightened.

My invention is designed to provide an improved shelter-tent for the useof soldiers and civilians while camping out. 7 It relates to thearrangement of the ridgefastening; and the improvement consists in adiagonal arrangement of loops laced; through eyelets or grommets at thejoined tops of the two sections of the tent, whereby the longitudinaltension incident to the pitehingof the tent produces an inward stress ofthe lacingloops, and by sharpening the ridge renders the same tighterand better adapted to shedding water, excluding dust, &c.

In the drawing, A represents the rectangular side wall, and B Bacute-angled triangular end pieces, secured at each end of the saidrectangular pieces A. Two of such rectangular pieces, with acute-angledtriangular end pieces, form the tent, as shown, when pitched,

in Fig.

In connecting the ridge portion, a double series of eyelets or grommets,Fig. 2, are arranged in their adjacent edges, and in the same arecross-laced independent link-loops of cord 0. These loops consist of acord looped, with their ends united by a knot, and they are laceddiagonally by a chain-stitch arrangement, the knots being all upon oneside-the outside, as shown-of the tent, and the loops, bights, or bendsof one flexiblelink being arranged to embrace the next diagonalloop-link just before it passes through the eyelet, while the end loopsor terminal bights are made to embrace the projecting tenons of thetentpoles. Now, when theridge is straightened'by a longitudinal strain,the diagonally-laced flexible chain-loops cause the two rows of eye letsor grommets to approach each other, and thus form a central longitudinalapex or ridge between the said rows, which makes a sharp rain-sheddingridge, and at the same time re-' enforces the ridge, without thenecessity of a ridge-pole or cord.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A tent havinga double row of eyelets or grommets along the edges of the sections ofcanvas which form the ridge, in combination with flexible knottedchain-loops G, adapted to be laced diagonally, as shown and described.

A. s. BURT.

Witnesses J NO. H. KING, E. F. TOWNSEND.

